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      The Heat's on

      by Chester Himes
      Published
      Dec 1988
      Main Genre
      Thriller Thriller
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      176
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      Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones

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      Detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones are in the hot seat in one of the most chaotic, brutally funny novels in the groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series. â€¢ "A rattlingly good action melodrama spiced with a maximum of humor and a minimum of self-consciousness." —The New York Times
       
      From the start, nothing goes right for Coffin Ed and Grave Digger. They are disciplined for use of excessive force. Grave Digger is shot and his death announced in a hoax radio bulletin. Bodies pile up faster than Coffin Ed and Grave Digger can run. Yet, try as they might, they always seem to be one hot step behind the cause of all the mayhem—three million dollars' worth of heroin and a giant albino called Pinky.

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      Suspense

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      Hard-Boiled Mystery Thriller

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      First Edition Dec 1988 Vintage ISBN 0394759974
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